Category: Mekong Utility Watch

Valley of Darkness: Gold Mining and Militarization in Burma’s Hugawng Valley

(January 10, 2007) The remote and environmentally rich Hugawng Valley in Burma’s northern Kachin State has been internationally recognized as one of the world’s hotspots of biodiversity. The military junta ruling Burma, together with the US-based Wildlife Conservation Society, is establishing the world’s largest tiger reserve in the valley. However, the conditions of the people living there have no received attention.